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Chapter 2: Pyromaniac

Dust drew his blade. "What are you doing?!"

The cloaked figures turned to face him, eyes shining through the darkness like embers. They said nothing but they seemed to know who he was, their hands became engulfed in flames. They gave strange movements before a blast of fire came gushing out of the palm of their hands shoot straight towards him travelling at an alarming speed. Dust blocked the first wave with a dust storm but it wasn't long until they shot several others straight at him, he was almost at his limit until a massive explosion knocked him against the cliff side.

Dust sat up, a cloud of ash concealing him from the cloaked figures. "That couldn't have been one of them, that explosion was far too powerful to be one of them."

The ash had mostly settled around him showing the cloaked figures but they were not attacking, instead just standing there as if waiting. Another figure appeared behind them, but was not wearing cloaks. As it approached Dust the figure became viable, he was wearing armour coving most of his body but shared the same glowing eyes as the others.

"F...Fuse?!" Dust exclaimed

He let out a psychotic laugh. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" he said savagely. "Ashes is what you'll be when im done with you!"

Dust stood up and drew his blade yet again. "I thought you were dead."

"Hahaha of course not, you should stop assuming people are dead my friend. I'll make sure you are this time."

"You know you cannot beat me, I've grown more powerful than you could possibly imagine. This time I WILL kill you, its what she would have wanted."

Fuse set a stance as his entire body became immersed with flames and his armour bared the veins of molten rock. "Your not the only one that has became more powerful, and you say "she" like I should now her."

Dust looked at him dead in the eye. "Im talking about Ginger."

The area around Fuse was covered in fire. "Ginger is dead! Their all dead! Everyone I've ever loved is dead!" The fames became more and more violent the more Fuse thrashed around in anger, his entire body had an intense aura of heat as if he was about to explode.

"Im going to kill you, and when I do im going to burn down Aurora village, nobody will be left alive..."

Dust snapped and headed straight for him, sword drawn and anger in his eyes. He swung at Fuse with immense force but Fuse had blocked it with his solid gauntlet, he then grabbed Dust by the throat and pulled him towards his face. "Now its my turn." he whispered. Fuse punched him in the chest, stomach and face several times with his fists blazing before kneeing him straight in the face causing Dust to fly into the cliff again. But this time a boulder came loose and started tumbling down the cliff side and crushed Dust.

"Mwhahahahaha how did I ever lose to a wimp like you? It didn't last as long as our first battle and wasn't nearly as fun," he cackled.

Fuse turned away and started walking until he could hear a rumbling noise, he turned around to see the boulder moving. Dust had emerged from the ground with his shirt torn off revealing his tattoo like scars across his body, as Dust looked up at him, Fuse soon realised it wasn't Dust any more but Cassius.

"Cassius? Cassius!" Fuse screamed as he blasted a giant beam of fire.

Cassius picked up Ahrah and ran straight towards Fuse and cut straight through the fire plunging his sword into Fuses stomach. Cassius pulled Fuse into his sword until he got to the hilt, Fuse was screaming in agony. "Now its my turn" He said amusingly and swiftly ripped the blade out of him. Cassius cut Fuses arm off with one slash and he fell to the floor, bleeding to death.

Cassius stood over him. "Your not worth the effort" he said before walking away.

Fuse sat up and threw another blast of fire at Cassius but it had no effect. Cassius halted for a second and looked back at the dieing reptile. One of the scars on his back began to rip out of his flesh, it fashioned itself into a spike and launched straight into Fuses heart before retracting back into Cassius. Cassius gave a smirk that soon disappeared as he fell to his knees and let out a screech of pain, as he awoke Dust was in control again.

He looked at the mangled corpse that was once Fuse. "Wh...What have I done..."